From: Randall Parker 

Geo wrote:
> It appears your router is set to block all icmp traffic, that could possibly
> be affecting linux as many functions use ICMP. It's also possible that your
> DNS settings are different between windows and linux, this could make a big
> difference if one of the dns servers isn't reachable or if icmp is used to
> test if it's there.

I can not figure out in the Netgear user interface web pages where to set
whether to allow ICMP packets to pass. Anyone know where to look?

>
> Geo.
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